Build Women’s Fair Trade Businesses, Hidalgo

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The private sector is willing to resume it's intermediary role in marketing. Many merchants and businesses suffered heavy losses during the war and want credit from banks.but the structural adjustment programme backed by the international monetary fund and the world Bank in seeking to limit currency in circulation has imposed severe restriction on local lending. Loans are now available only at high interest rates mainly to urban traders dealind in consumer goods.
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